The Sand Springs Sun from Sand Springs, Oklahoma • 1

1 i LEE We cover Sand Springs like the mu with The Sun "In the light of fact Man makes progress" VOL 7-NO 60 TUB INDUSTRIAL HOB OF OKLAHOMA SPRINGS OKLAHOMA THURSDAY NOVEMBER 21 1910 ALL ALL THB NEW! THfl TIMB COMPLETE COVERAGE Passengers 1100 Annual BRISTOW HERE FOR FINAL HOME GAME Bristow who has lost only one game this season will invade Sand Springs for the last football game of the season on the local schedule Friday night With a strong running and passing attack LeForce son of the coach is a triple threat back and a candidate for all state This is the best team in reeeu years for Bristow and their only defeat was Ponca City who edged them out 14 to 13 Tile Sandites have no injuries that is expected to handicap their team WELFARE DRIVE TO BE CONTINUED UNTIL GOAL IS REACHED 1000 Raised To Date With Residence Scheduled Saturday NAMED SUPT OF SCHOOLS II CUREMORE Dr Clyde formei superintendent of the Sand Springs schools has been named superintendent of the Cluremore schools it was announced Wednesday by Vinson president of the Claremore School board The vacancy was created by the death of Crudup who died suddenly last week will assume his new du ties December 2 He is now engaged in research work wi' state department of educatir Give! By Rev Paul Gary Chairman of Welfare Drive me year 194U-41 is basicjhy ru anierent ail il yeuts ine smie eao us me u-c oi ciotiung me pooriy cum a -i feeding the iiungiy i- aiwuys Wi With Ui tc cannot nogwet tins now iNUUoiiui uiny uuiidnu a iujnng Ol it CUbl liiUit iUi faOveiiuiiciii io uiencu rcncl tiiriii uicu tuiuu iur vu toIOUpi A City Wetuuul VVUitUc iUHdb UiSpuioGU Uuuufcn a coupaauve biity is ut tuc mercy vi pan handle! ana oificr iuiauiih pi WS Wtiiic VsOJtiiy CdaCb ilia- ow inducted vc iiiuot subscribe the oinuum oi our goal we axe tu prowuc emeigciicy ltlici thiougii uu ui ler SANUI1ES UNIVERSITY BAND One of The Best In The History Of The School Officials Say Welfare workers were facing an eir-isirg difficult task this week 1 the needed $7500 to arry out the welfare work of this mas pdtaae rity the coming year (jlaus will be here with drive is falling short of e-xpr-cta ldV0IS lor thl youngsters and R''v Paul Gary chairman try jamiiy in this trade territory uiu negotiations are now underway lor hie large lunny laces usdi idige cities lor the Christ- Above is a drawing which illustrates the Sand Springs the Sand Springs Railway Co system The line is eight miles from one terminus to the other but its total trackage including double-trrvk spurs and sidings reaches 36 miles The Sand Springs Railway freight depot and Ratv passenger station is shown below This modern building and its facilities were completed in July 1938 Standing from left to right in the foreground is Johnston Vlurdell Coates Claude Ball Roy Ilunintel 1 II Shorten Ken Tracy Best Wayne Woodward James Thornton SAND Railway This program of constructive assistance to new industries has characterized the entire history of the railroad Mr 'v-cies having been continued i force by the trustees of the Sand Springs Home which still owns and operates the railroad "As I review the past 29 years since I came hone to help Charles Page build the Sand Springs said President Steffens -is difficult to realize that such a transformation could have taken place The railroad was projected into the sand dunes and scrub oaks west of Tulsa when there were but three houses in the entire area along its right-of-way and only 20 people living where what is now Sand Springs Today Sand Springs is a modern industrial city of some 8000 and the railway serves a community of 20000 Since Mr Steffens was elected president of the Sand Springs Home following the death last spring of Monsell Babbitt vice president of the railroad has assumed additional responsibilities for the operation of the road FARES NEVER RAISED Founded by Mr Page as a source of revenue to sustain the Sand Springs Home and Colony the Sand Springs railway has proven its operation indispensible to this community Drspife this fact passenger fares have never been raised on the railway during the more than a quarter of a century of operation During that period railroads inferur-ban linos street ear companies taxi firms and bus operators have fluctuated their schedule of passenger fares from time to time riding up and down with prosperity and depression During this period Sand Springs railway has maintained a 10-cent fare between Tulsa and Sand Springs a five-cent fare to intermediate points Hundreds of school children ride regularly for only 2'i cents Policemen firemen and mail carriers ride free while special privileges are also extended to churches Boy Scouts Girl Scouts and the Salvation Army The railway operates Interur-ban service 24 hours daily There is 20-minute service for 18 hours a day with 10-minute service between Tulsa and Bruner station during heavy morning and afternoon periods Owl cars operate over the entire system after midnight A total of 136 passenger car trips are made every 24 hours Mr theory was that Oklahoma raw materials natural gas and water could be combined with Oklahoma labor to furnish employment for the people new wealth for the state and an endowment for his orphans home and widows colony It worked The Sand Springs Railway is CHRISTMAS PARADE FRIDAY NOVEMBER 29 Many Prizes To Be Given in Treasure Hunt Windows Decorated Plans were practically complete tuuuy Xor one of the grandest op-niiigs of the Christmas shopping easons here in recent years 'Hie event is being sponsored and arranged by the Juniot Chamber ol Commerce and Friday night November 29 has been set tor the grand parade led by a band and lloats decorated in Christmas style Valuable prizes will be given away in a treasure hunt in which persons holding tickets that are bting given away by business houses will find a duplicate number posted on the prize displayed in the windows The parade has been scheduled lor 7 3d in the evening and the treasuie hunt will lollow immed lately Most of the business houses wni remain open mat evening Moats horn most oi the civic ana social eluos wul be tae parade are urgeU lo be present and to see the Christmas merchandise tnat is avuiiaole at the business institutions Buow is a list of the treasure hunt prizes and the business here they will be lound Vaughn iridw Gen Elec Iron Hunsecktr Co Blanket Farr's Ben Franklin Stole Table Lamp Heady To -Wear Satir gown Clothing Store Col-U-Tex table cloth Texas Store Blanket Rexall Drug Store $255 in merchandise Okla Tire A Supply Co Badminton set Mute skin Brown Furniture Co 7-way floor lamp with night light RrA Young Store Negro Mammy Cookie Jar and Range set combination Fashion Clothiers 3 pan of hose Cash Buys Store Chenille bed spread Star Drug Store Merchandise The above stores will all be open for business Cole and Son Grocery 24-lb sack of flour Dunn Grocery basket of assorted groceries Union Food Market 2 lbs coffee The above stores are giving prizes as indicated LEGIONNAIRES RE- liU BANQUET PROGRAM Home znd Trustees Present Lease On Building To St Mihiel Tost No 17 More than 100 iegionnaries auxiliary members and guests assembled at the American Legion Hut Tuesday night for the rededication of St Mihiel Post No 17-After five years of remodeling and redecorating the hut located in the old Sand Springs Park the building is now very attractive and enlarged to accomodate a large crowd and is the most completely equipped building in tht ciy outside the school system for accomodating a group meeting Commander Nuckolls pre sided at the meeting and commended the Sand Home Interest for their support in assisting the Legion in this venture Steffens chairman of the board ot trustees in behalf of the board of trustees and the Home Interest presented Commander Nuckolls with a lease on the building Carlson was presented with a merit award for his services as past commander of the American Legion Mrs Russell Brenneman led group singing of Bless The invocation and benediction was given by Chaplain Robert Hamraum A bountiful turkey dinner wat -erved at 7 by the American Legion Auxiliary Following the program dancing was enjoyed by tiie group Chalmers who was chairman of the hut committee when work was began remodeling the hut accepted the lease in behalf of the Legion WILSON HELD WITHOUT BOND FOR DISTRICT COURT Held witout bond Melvin Edgar Wilson 22 was ordered held for jury trial in the district term of court on a rape charge following the preliminary trial in common pleas court before Judge Grady Cornett Tuesday Wilson is accused of criminally attacking a 19-year old girl near the Tulsa city limits north ot Bruner Station as she returned home from work at the Comman der Mills Million ion Freight IAN SPRINGS SAND SPRINGS HAS BIGGEST LITTLE RAILROAD Probably biggest little railroad in the is the one operated with Sand Springs and Tulsa as its terminals From the standpoints of freight tonnage and passengers handled pfir mile of its system the Sand Springs Railway ranks with the largest Over the eight miles between one end of the line and the other this railroad carries more than 1000000 passengers a year It handles 11000 cars of freight School fares total near ly 150000 a year at half the regular rates The railway serves an immediate territory of 20000 population including Sand Springs and "the area The Sand Springs railway operates successfully In an era of growing competition in the I transportation field It is today as potent a factor in relation to the Sand Springs industrial area as Charles Page ever im agined it would be He started the construction in Feb ruary 1911 and brought Steffens from St Louis to operate it Today the Sana Springs railway is the electrified arterial system of a thriving throbbing industrial empire The story of industrial development in Oklahoma would not be complete unless it Included a chapter on Sand Springs the of this territory and the Sand Springs railway one of the most unusual railroads in America 85 INDUSTRIAL SHIPPERS Of some 85 industrial shippers located along the right-oft-way of the Sand Springs rail way in the Sand Springs-Tulsa area 40 of these plants and factories are served by the railroad in the immediate Sand Springs community alone These Sand Springs industries according to a recent survey employ 2700 people at an an nual payroll of nearly $1800 000 Annually they create 11000 cars of freight inbound and outbound which they rely upon the Sand Springs railway to handle to and from the trunk line railroads in Tulsa In the entire Sand Springs-Tulsa area the line serves some 85 industries employing 4300 persons at an annual payroll of $4500000- Aided by the many natural advantages of Sand water natural gas crude oil zinc scrap steel agricultural crops Sand Springs railway has been one of the greatest factors in the establishment and continued growth of the town Transportation is the blood stream of business and social life and Sand Springs railway has been the artery which has carried the great volume of passenger traffic and merchandise freight between Sand Springs and Tulsa between Sand Springs the nation and foreign lands The products of these Sand Springs area industries are wide in variety and are shipped into every state in the union and to practically every country in the world Listed among these products are: Meat chemicals meters dog food electric fixtures paper boxes lamp chimneys fruit jars fabricated steel zinc dust NOTICE Beginning' Dec 1st change in fare 10c for 1 or 2 passengers 5c each additional passenger Basis 1 stop A-DIME CAB CO PHONE 181 NORMAN Nov 21-Three Sand Springs students ate among the 234 who have been chosen members of the University of Oklahoma band this year it has been announced by Wehrend-director They are Gooding Nelson Isham Nelson and Orville Whisenhunt One hundred and two cities and towns are represented in this band which is one of tht! Mrs Grace Ku laigest in the history of the insti jrajie Mis tution Now known as the the band is olten divided on trips each year tiie concert group giving concerts state cities and the marcaing band for the football team at several out of town games Plans are being made by officers of the organization to take the band to San Francisco November 30 for the Oklahoma -Santa Clara football game Committee Red Cross were making a finance that tiie work out through Mrs Harold of the other members Nelson Mrs Ed Cleckhr Mrs Mrs Matthews Hull ft Mrs Mis Knuwks wishng to wno had to It phone 16 BATTLE OF BE PLAYED battle of FIRST DRAFTEES CALLED TO OKLA CITY NOVEMBER 25 Five Selected Through Local Board II W' Milner OnlvOne To Go From Here In answer to a telegram from Acting State Director of the Se --ive Dralt Board Don Welch of City the local board will ou Monday send to Oklaho ma City for induction five draftees selected through this board They are: Herbert Wilma Milner Savoy Hotel Burnett Lee McWaters RFD 9 Tulsa Will lam James Hudson RFD 5 Tul John Austin Goodell 6511 3rd Tuisa Orville Francis Downey 320 65th Tulsa Ihe local draft board No 5 located in room 20 of the Folk Building are sending out additional questionnaires and the attention of the draftees is called to the fact that the governor of Ok- lahnma has narmd seven people lo assist lnrr making out theii questionnaires These people are: Paul Pinkerton bank build-ng Clyde Boyd( school superintendent Barton RFD 1 Buford Booker Washington School Johnson Jenks nd Vm Geoige Jenks All questionnaire must be filled out in ink The members of your loca) iraft board nor their office per-semne-l can assist the draftee in ilhiig ojt his questionnaire Do not go to the examining physician until your local board hiccts For any appeals that you night have after your questiorv-naire has been classified contact the Government Appeal Agent Baker at the Southwest Boa Co RED CROSS DRIVE NOW UNDERWAY IN SPRINGS women of the local busy this week drive and stated would be carried Saturday Knowles is chairman committee and named as Mrs Isham Gray Mrs Risinger me II Mrs Jot McCarthey Mis Boigwald that anyone make contributions net been solicited MUSIC TO FRIDAY music between the gold and the black of the Sand Springs highschool hand will ba played Friday night at the hall during the Bristow -Sandite foot ball game if the weather permits-The music contest was postponed last Friday because of the cold weather and Director Clarence Law less stated it would be played this week The golds are led by Bill Smith and the blacks are led by James Sanders Although the rain has hampered the marching of the bands during the past few days they both assert they are confident of victory as they had their marching and special features for last Friday CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST MRS MARGARET RUSSELL No charges will be preferred against Margaret Russell 23 who shot and seriously wounded het husband in a downtown building here several weeks ago it was announced by the county attorney Wednesday Ru-stll who is recovering from the pistol wound is said to have signed a letter in which he stated do not want my wife punish-d or pmse-euted in any way for shooting The shooting grew out of dom-e-slic troubles but it was thought the couple with their two child ren will reunite Miss Margaret Hummel daugh ter of Mr and Mrs Roy Hummel veil! be home this weekend to attend the Tulsa-Oklahoma A college football game in Tulsa Mrs Rlanche Waltzer Mrs Jessie Cheney and Mrs Henry Benmng were guests of Mrs Harry Wilder Tulsa Monday afternoon and at dinner YELLOW CAB CO The Company that brought TAXI service to Sand Springs 1 or 4 Anywhere in 10 City 24 HOUR SERVICE You are Insured Phone 10 YAW'VAWVAVAYJVWI ars ofume electrically opeiated by means of an overhead trolley system which derives currem from the Oklahoma Power Water Co A power volume of 1500000 kilowatt hours a year is required to piopiil the pa serger and freight cars The Sand Springs railway is not alone in proving the economy and effcency of the electric trolley systemSome of tlie greatest railroad systems use the same type of power In this regard the Sand Springs railway is in a class with the "ngylvania railroad which has the electric trolleys for all its operations between New York and Washington and New York and Harrisburg Ta That giant of the railway world extended its trolley system to Ilarrisbuig only a year or two ago and is said to plan further extension Another big electrically-operated line is the transcontinental system of the Chieigo Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific So it may be seen that the Sard Springs railway is in step with the times EQUIPMENT KEPT UP The railway recently installed a 25-ton lat! in its shops here for turning ear wheels The line keeps in equlpmere- upjQii maximum efficiency Hundreds of school child' en living in the Burner and Twin Cities area on the Sand Springs line have the advantage of the cheap transportation to school They ride the Sand Springs Railway ears for half fare back and forth daily attending Sand Springs schools Likewise children from other parts of the line area are carried for half fare to tile Tulsa schools The Sand Springs Railway is distinctive in that it is owned by a charitable institution The entire stock 'isrne is in the name of the Sand Springs Home The five trustees of the home are directors of the company Other officers besides President Steffens and Vice President Babbitt are Tinglcy secretary and Est ill general auditor Wiles is the other director President Steffens looks forward with optimism to the future of industry in the Sand Springs area He called attention to a 1'i per cent increase over 193!) in employment for 20 industries in the district served by the road He predicted a period of increasing activity especially over the next four or five years In this picture of growing industry stands Sand Springs offering ideal facilities for the accommodation of new industries a vast supply of industrial trackage sites well-rounded utility services and general adaptability to a wide variety of industry This community stands with open arms beckoning other industrial enterprises to share its advantages of the drive stated 'ons giving food and cloh-'ng in the evidential district are "reed to piece them 1-undies oi bets on the porch Saturday miming by 9 a and they will no Garv that many persons 'ure nov steadily tmoloyed in cand Springs and that they should give generously to this campaign to assist those w'ho are less fortunate The total amount raised to date is $4000 but the drive will be continued until the goal is reached officials stated A large hean-o-meter placed at the south end of the Page triangle on Main St each day registers the total amount raised to date Any person having donations to make who have not been solicited may call the welfare office and their donations will be picked up S-S-S VINITA DEFEATS SANDITES IN LAST CONFERENCE GAME Locals Lead At Half But Are Overcome By Breaks A hustling Sandite eleven rambled doum the field in the latter part of the first quarter to score on Vinita here last Friday night And though the Sandite squad was able to hold the Vinita lads scoreless throughout the rest of the first half and worry them plenty by keeping the play in their territory it was a different story in the second half of the game Vinita uncorking some off tackle power to score two touchdowns and taking advantage of a penalty enforcement to press the Sandites back over their own peal for a safety Final score was Vinita 14 Sand Springs 6 Jack Manus Sandite quarterback tangled with one of the Vinita lads on the play which gained Vinita her first touchdown The enforcement of the penally gave Vinita the edge by allowing her to kickoff to Sand Springs from the Sandite 25 yarn line A bad pass from center to Young which we presume was caused by injured wrist bounded a yard over the Sandite goal and Young had no altcrnat ive but to fall on the ball Then along in the middle of the last quarter Looney intercepted pass intended for Hays This set up the second touchdown for Vinita the ball going into play on about the Sandite 21 Summary will show that though the gain by rushing was about (Continued on page 5) GIRL SELECTED AS TREASDRER OF DORMITORY Chickasha Nov 21 (Special) Miss June Emerson sophomore at Oklahoma College for Women Chickasha has been elected treasurer of Jane Addams residence hall Miss Emerson is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Emerson 600 Lincoln As dormitory treasurer she will serve on the college student government eoun cil Jane Addams residence hall is the newest of the eight modern dormitories on the campus of the state College for Women The activities of the student body of more than 1000 young women are directed bv the elected dormitory officers One of the most popular projects of the student board is the monthly all-college dance held in tlie gymnasium Miss Emerson is majoring in commerce at tiie college oil well supplies castings sand gravel stone refined oil products live stock tractors pumps UVI7 0IVVfk UUvuiu I vaveSi farm implements bev- erages technical instruments paints and varnishes pipe coatings brick and tile steel tanks and oil and gas separators Although owned by a charitable institution and operated for its support and maintenance the Sand Springs railway is one of the largest taxpayers in the county Since it was built the Railway has paid a total of $457000 in aft valorem taxes which has gone to support city county and school government in Tulsa county Its tax bill for 1939 was approximately $40000 From the standpoint of employment and payroll the railroad is in itself an important industry for its 125 employes receive wages totalling $213000 a year These employes with their 230 direct dependents make a total of 355 persons who derive their livelihood from the Sand Springs railway More than half these employes and their families live in Sand Springs and vicinity Of the 125 employes 68 are home owners Ten of them have been in the service beyond 25 years 26 of them for more than 20 years 10 have been with the railroad for 15 years and 79 of them for under 15 years This veteran service record has been established by a railroad whose whole span of existence has been less than 30 years 36 MILES OF TRACK As a source of revenue for other Sand Springs and Tulsa concerns the Sard Springs railway spends thousands of dollars annually in the purchase of materials supplies and services locally The railroad operates a total of 36 miles of trackage which includes 1034 miles of main track 536 miles of double track and 20-4 miles of sidings and spurs It was the Sand Springs railway which enabled Charles Page to locate the Kerr Glass Manufacturing Kerr Hubbard Kelly South West Box Co Sand Springs textile mills the Pierce refineryf now Sinclair) the steel mill United States Zinc Co and other pioneer industries in Sand Springs This was possible because the railroad built spurs to industrial sites delivered the construction material for factory buildings and provided quick freight service on both inbound raw materials and supplies and outbound finished products While some of these the cotton mill and steel mill were built and financed personally by Mr Page and others were partially owned by him good factory sites and trackage property on reasonable terms gas water and electric power service were other inducements which Mr Page held out to practically all of these enterprises as a part of the industrial development program of his railroad STATE OFFICIALS TO BE GUESTS OF ROTARIANS Members of the State legislature and other state officers will be guests of tlie Rotary club here Friday noon it was announced today by Steflens chanman of the progiam committee The address will be delivered by Graham President of the Tulsa Clearing House Association Senator Henry Timmops is ex pected and Representative Joe Chambers Latting Temple Melton A Montgomery Holly Anderson and Glade Kirkpatrick Other members of the program committee are Happenny Dowell Young and Clyde Boyd -S S- DESERT LIZARD FOUND IN SAND SPRINGS HOTEL Cecil Murray who resides at the Broadway Hok4 stated today that he had captured a Gila Mon ster poisonous deseit lizard in the basement of that hotel How the animal got there is only a matter of speculation with the possibility of a tourist staying overnight had let the anintat escape and did not report it These lizards are not native of Oklahoma and usually inhabit arid lands Murray stated he had taken it to Mohawk zoo TIE FOR FIRST PLACE IN BOWLING LEAGUE HERE The Sheffield Steel and the Home are tied for first place in the Bowling League here Tom McMekin of the bowling alley announced today Other standings are: ners and Commander third and fourth place Ten Pin-Mills in High scores for the week were made by Mrs- Carlson with 207 and Minor Coberg with 235.